Resident of Georgia released after detention on Abkhaz border

December 23, 2024 20:12

• Comment in messenger results in fine imposed on Gelendjik woman

  The Gelendjik City Court has fined a local resident by treating her comment posted in a messenger as discrediting the Russian Army.

December 22, 2024 20:54

• Russian SAM names conditions for permissible polygamy for Muslims

  As follows from a fatwa (a legal ruling on a point of Islamic law (sharia), – note of the “Caucasian Knot”) of the Ulema Council of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims (SAM) of Russia, polygamy is permissible for Muslim men in Russia, and a Muslim can be in a religious marriage with four women with fair and equal treatment of all his wives.

December 22, 2024 20:13

• Five more participants of riots at Makhachkala airport sentenced to imprisonment

  Five residents of Dagestan have been sentenced to terms of imprisonment ranging from 8 years 6 months to 8 years 8 months in a penal colony in a case on the riots at an airport in Makhachkala.

December 22, 2024 19:11

• Compensation decrease for illegal prosecution violates rights of KBR resident

  The court ruling, which awarded Madin Gubzhokov compensation of 30,000 roubles for unlawful criminal prosecution, is incomparable with the moral harm caused by the actions of Azamat Kyaov, a former law enforcer. The amount is ridiculous and should be appealed against, lawyers and human rights defenders have stated.

December 22, 2024 15:47

• Rights defenders criticize law enforcers' awarding after dispersing protests in Tbilisi

  The Georgian Government has decided to award the Order of Honour to eleven high-ranking officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA). Human rights defenders have pointed out that on November 28, MIA's employees had held a deliberate dispersal of the protest; and one of the awardees was involved in the abuse of detainees.